How Do You Dress Up Like An Actuary?
Posted on 02.16.07 in Family and there are 5 comments.
Career week is coming up at my daughter’s school and they’ve sent notes home with parents to ask them to come to school to talk about their jobs. They’ve also requested office tours.
My daughter and her classmates are 4. My husband is a quality assurance manager for a benefits consulting firm and he works from home. *I* don’t even understand what he does. How do we explain it to four year olds? And the class wouldn’t fit in his office - much less be able to tour it.
Besides what would he show them, “And here are pension calculations for the year 2006...”
I’m not much better. I develop websites and write a music marketing blog. Most adults I talk to don’t know what a blog is. How to I explain that to 4 year olds?
Policemen and firemen can at least dress up in cool clothes. My husband and I (since we’re both at home all day) spent an inordinate amount of time in our pj’s. My husband’s reply to the situation was, “Yeah, how do you dress up like an actuary? (he’s not actually an actuary...but you get the idea)”
Perhaps we should just bring our laptops to school and tell them we play on the computer all day.
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That works! 4 year olds now days would probobally understand what a blog is better than most adults anyways. My 4 year old son makes laptops out of construction paper, with interchangeable papers, and says he’s “updating his blog.” !!!
Feb 16, 07 at 10:45 pm
Kristin,
“updating his blog”
Too funny! I suppose with two blogging parents it must be in his blood.
My girls can spot an apple computer from a mile away. I’m not sure they know what blogging is, though.
Feb 17, 07 at 12:30 am
Hey, thanks for letting me know about the video, I’ve redone it and I hope it’s working now.
Feb 17, 07 at 02:22 am
If I had kids this day might be a bit fun. Being an actor, my kid could dress up as someone who dresses up as other people for a living. Or being an Executive Director of an arts organization, my kid could wear a strait jacket to class. Or being a minister, my kid could… well… the strait jacket probably works there too.
Feb 17, 07 at 08:58 am
My sis-in-law is working towards her actuarial license. She still has a test or two to pass. Your hubby should not dress like her.
For me, I am (as you know) a rheologist working with oilfield drilling fluids. Since these drilling fluids use the mineral barite (a brown substance dug up out of the earth as rocks and crushed into a fine powder resembling dirt) as a large part of fluid - making them resemble wet dirt - they are commonly called “muds”. So, when many people ask what I do for a living, I grin and say that I live out every little boy’s dream: I play with mud all day 
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Kristin
Feb 16, 07 at 08:50 pm